Re: Optical scanner for Music Box Discs
By Jack Kane
[ Forwarded by Robbie Rhodes:
Robbie:
Thanks for writing!
I will scrounge around for a small Stella; I am assuming the disc needs to be no larger than standard paper width (8.5"). I have numerous 17" discs but the image would take up 2 pieces of legal size paper.
What do you think of building a tracker bar (I'm assuming that this is the bar over which the paper rolls and has the air holes) which has photo cells for each track. Each photo cell would correspond to a circuit which would trigger the playing of a music note (each note assigned to a Cakewalk track.)
I have a machinist friend who would be more than willing to build the tracker bar -- I would need to get the photo cells that are small enough to fit in each track (Stella tracks are about 1/32"). This would be really exciting as there are literally thousands of Stella discs (especially 17" ones) and the 26" Stella, while a less common size, has spectacular arrangements of music.
I appreciate your input and will get a Stella disc photocopy out to you.
Cheers,
Jack Kane
2123 Bethlehem Street
Houston, TX 77018
(713)957-2826 voice
(713)686-9306 fax
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(Message sent Sun 4 Aug 1996, 15:24:11 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.) |
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